A little pep talk.

Funny thing. My professor kind of gave the class a little bit of a pep talk today. I guess a lot of people have been concerned about wanting to graduate fast and this is the only time that they can take the class to keep their goals...this is also my excuse. He talked about taking the time while you are young to live life. You only get to be young at one time. That is all. If you are worried the entire time that you are young, your life passes you away and you get so far ahead of where you should be that you don't enjoy life. He also talked about when he was going into medical school how some of his friends were shocked that he would go back to school when he was 30. "You won't be done with med school until you are 36!" I love his response, "yes, but I would rather be done when I am 36 than be 36 and not done." That hit me hard. It has been hard for me to justify taking 7 years to graduate. I will be 25 when I am done...but it will definitely be better than 25 and not done. I guess that when you are listening, you can really hear things that are poignant. You do have to be listening though. If you are wallowing in self pity, no matter what people say, you will be miserable with your situation. I am yet again on a high of my roller coaster called school. I think that the ups are getting more often and my downs are not as far down as they have been in the past. I am really trying to live one day at a time and enjoying every day as it comes. That is all I can ask for. I know that if I look around, even a little bit, there will be someone out there that will be in a harder situation than me. I should feel blessed that it isn't my time to "complicate" life with a child. I should feel blessed that I am able to get a good education and not starve while trying to get it. I should feel blessed that I am as healthy as I am and not as sick as I have been in the past. I should feel blessed that I have an ambitious husband that is able to support our family and wants to be able to always support our family. There are too many things that I could go into specifics for that I am truly blessed to be right where I am at this moment in my life. There are things that I could dwell on and want so badly that it takes up my time, but starting now I will try to weed out those thoughts and live in the now. It is yet another journey that I am embarking upon.